On Wednesday thousands of people flooded the London streets to take part in the student protests. We asked our book and teen book communities to suggest titles that would help put the events into context. Here's a selection of the recommendations.

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•Energise!: A Future for Energy Innovation by James Woudhuysen and Joe Kaplinsky was suggested by Manick, who gave a full and comprehensive reading list. Energise! is a powerful treatise which discusses attitudes to climate change and the steps which can taken towards achieving sustainability.

•ijclark suggested The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, adding 'if any book reveals what is at the heart of the government's economic experiment it's this one'.

• Sylvia Townsend Warner was a devoted member of the Communist Party and her novel Summer Will Show is an anti-patriarchal story set against the turbulent revolutions of 1848. kassandra recommended this.

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•fulmin8or suggested a handful of titles, including the novelStranger in A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein which follows the tale of a human come to Earth as an adult after being born on Mars and explores his interaction with our culture, and his attempts to transform it.